On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Stuart MacKay wrote:

> Being a direct descendent of St. Helen, I feel that my family has been
> cheated out of a considerable inheritence by preventing us claiming the rights
> to the extensive mineral deposits in the area :-)) Maybe the change of
name had something to do with land claims, n'est pas ?
> Apart from English names displacing the names that "native" peoples
already had...


The good citizens of Tacoma have been proposing for years that Mt Rainier
be officially re-named "Tahoma", as it was called by the local Salish.

I fully support that effort, and would also like to see the Chinookan:

Klickitat - not Mt Adams
Lillooet -- not Mt St Helens
Wy'East --- not Mt Hood

There are many others (Does anyone know the Kalapuyan or Mollalla name
for Mt Jefferson in Oregon?).